The mainstream media for quite a while tried to sell us the story that the disturbances in Leicester were the result of tensions arising from a cricket match. Maybe a cricket match played some small part in all this continued violence on the streets of Leicester, but the bulk of the problem can be fairly described as, not cricket.
The tensions have been rising in Leicester for months if what is appearing on two very interesting Twitter accounts is to be believed. Amardeep S Dhillon of Vice News and The Guardian’s Northern community correspondent Aina J Khan both put up reportage and commentary about the ongoing violence in Leicester and both pointed the fingers at the tensions being inflamed by outsiders sympathetic to Hindu extremism. Of course this got quite the expected response from Hindus both at home and overseas, which was vehement denials of this point of view. Some Muslim commentators blamed the Hindus for starting the trouble and there were Hindus who denied this and accused the Muslims of being the problem an accusation which Muslim spokesmen of course denied. There are also allegations circling around that some of the tension goes back to March of this year when two Hindus were allegedly attacked by Muslims, but as with much else about this situation determining the actual truth is difficult. The current trouble, at least according to Sunny Hundal, someone who has been part of the multicultural establishment for years, started after the cricket match on August 28th when a Sikh was attacked by Muslims and anti-Muslim slogans were heard. Mr Hundal might well be correct that the current trouble stemmed from the aftermath of the cricket match but the trouble has been brewing for a lot longer than late August.
Whatever the truth, whether there were outside Hindu elements stirring the shit or whether it’s all been started by Muslims, what remains is a serious problem in Leicester. Some of the accounts of what has been going on, accounts that don’t seem to be being shared by our mainstream media, even taking into account their need for accurate fact checking, are truly worrying with reports on social media of gangs, from both sides increasing in size. There are reports of tooled up Hindus marching and gangs of Muslims from Birmingham and Hindus from West London descending on Leicester. One unconfirmed report stated that there was an attempt by Muslims to lynch a young Hindu man which, if true, marks a serious and potentially deadly escalation.
Amidst the violence and division there have been some attempts to calm things down by local religious leaders and Leicestershire Police. There have also been individuals who have stood for calm such as the Islamic Iman who is said to have (the claim can be found on one of the Twitter links above) that an Islamic Iman stood guard over a Hindu Temple in order to dissuade Islamic mobs from destroying it. Now as many will already know, I don’t like Islam very much, but fair do’s to the Iman for doing this.
The police seem to be in an awful position. They are trying to keep order but the gangs and groups that they are facing or trying to separate from other groups, seem to be increasing in size. The police appear to have started out trying to be a bit ‘softly softly’ with the policing by not coming out quick and hard with riot cops, but things seem to have moved beyond soft glove policing and the police will need to do something to quell the violence but it’s possible that by doing this they will later have to deal with an awful lot of fallout should they go in and break the heads of both sides.
To continue with something I’ve noticed about Leicester Police and that is at one point there were some desperate pleas for calm coming out of this force. They do seem to be trying to deal with the hurricane of rumours that are spreading around saying ‘the Muslims did this’ or ‘the Hindus did that’ but the rumours seem to have more power to elicit action than are the police’s pleas for calm. The police are now saying that the violence is over, that there have been 47 arrests in connection with the violence and that calm has been restored. The police might be correct and that things are now calm, but this leaves me with two questions which the future is going to answer. The first questions is for how long will this calm remain and my second one is will this disorder spread to other British towns and cities where communal tensions are similarly simmering?
For eight months I lived in the Black Country. My road were half-and-half Brits and Indians. The road parallel was Islamic.
The Indians were a friendly lot, they even invited me to play cricket with them when they were short of a player. Whereas when I walked along the Muslim road I was told to ‘**** off, you don’t live here’.
Interesting experience. I’ve heard similar stories about parts of East London where most people got on with the Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists and Indian Christians but got the cold shoulder from Muslims.
Oh the joys of rapid and uncontrollable immigration that so often leads to community breakdown and parallel societies.
The irony in this case is that according to many of the accounts I’ve seen of Leicester, this is a place where normally Hindu and Muslim are said to be able to rub along with each other reasonably well. I wonder how much worse things are in areas where there is not normally communal harmony? What made me cynically smile is seeing how Claudia Webbe MP, yes her of the threats to the ‘other woman’ who she viewed as a threat to her relationship, going out and appealing for peace and calm. I can’t think of anyone currently in the public eye in Britain who is less suitable to be a peacemaker.
Leicester is that multi cultural that some years ago a cafe proprietor refused to serve me because I was a white man and said “go next door to the Chinaman he will serve you”. I doubt if things are much different in some areas now.
Although the MSM has been either very carefully not blaming anyone or else has blamed Hindus (e.g. Leicester Live), those of us who actually look at what happens around the world (or who remember events in the UK and Europe come to that) know full well that Muslims all too readily respond to what they perceive as insults with mob violence.
That attitude also surfaces in areas where Muslims dominate (numerically) a local area (Shariah patrols, people attacked for drinking on the streets, women harrassed/assaulted for not covering up – all in the UK at various times).
So whilst I would not say that Muslims are 100% to blame, I will say that they are mostly to blame on the basis that mob violence is normative in much of the Muslim world.
Add to that the factual evidence of various Muslim “Influencers” (e.g. the cretinous Mohammed Hijab) deliberately inciting Muslims and the evidence points to the problems being mostly Muslim-authored.
Furthermore, I suspect we can expect more of the same as Muslim numbers grow and they come to dominate areas of the UK more and more will move from Mecca to Medina in their thinking and practice.
You have a set of good points there. Although it may not been the followers of Islam that have started this set of disturbances, it’s difficult to deny that there is a disproportionate amount of incitement going on from Islamic groups and activists ramping up the tension.
Clearly I’m not the only one to come to spot the “Islamism” or orthodox Islam/Muslim omission
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/25/leicester-and-the-shameful-silence-over-islamism/
Indeed. Whatever tensions existed before it seems that the Islamists are ramping them up.